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'Southern Accents,' I think that's one of my best, really. That would have been 1984, and I wrote that on the piano in the studio at home. I had a studio, and I just happened to be down there in the middle of the night. It was quite late, probably early morning, and I just started to play, and a song just started to appear.
When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I've met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.
My accent depends on whom I'm around.
My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it was very British.
I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.
My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.
I love accents in general. I'm obsessed with dialects, and I had to write a whole movie about it called 'In a World...'
If a great part comes up and the guy's meant to have an Eastern European accent, great; but if it's a bad part I won't take it.
She goes on the set with headphones and gives you notes. She's terrific and I always run to her now, because she is just great to work with, as well as very good at different accents.
I've always felt very comfortable with accents. Once I get an accent, I can do it, and that's just something I've been able to do my whole life.
The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.
When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.
I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character.
Over the last 50 years or so, we have seen an increasing cultural diversification across the country. Accents are a reflection of society, and as society changes, so accents change.
When I'm just walking around, I swap between the British and the American, and when I'm with my family I'm with my Nigerian accent.
I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
I did a lot of acting, funnily enough, unprofessionally, as a kid. From when I was 10 years old until I was about 19, I was always doing little sketches with my friends, and doing different accents and voices.
Accents are very easy for me. With me, it's clothing and makeup and hair and all that stuff that inform how the character moves and feels.
Comedy has always been something I love, but for some reason - probably because of the British accent - I've always been pushed toward more period work.